sw00931sl23-forces

 Forces


Tic toc
tic toc
once around
then once again

Tic toc 
tic toc
once around
once more

    The faster the spin
    the faster the spin
    the stronger the force
    that's pulling out

    The faster the spin
    the faster the spin
    the easier it is
    to soar



-
Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-06-29    

sw00930sl22--time-2

 Time 2


There goes,
there goes,
there goes
eternity.

There goes,
there goes,
there goes
my love.

(repeat however often you wish to)

    Wait and see,
    wait and see,
    wait and see
    tomorrow.

    Wait and see,
    wait and see,
    wait and see
    today.

    (repeat however often you wish to)

There goes,
there goes,
there goes
eternity.

There goes,
there goes,
there goes
my love.

(repeat however often you wish to)



-
Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-06-25    

sw00929d42--AOL-health-vitamin-cautions

  For a period in the 1990s I took 50000 IU of A
each day.  Do not recall why I started, but I soon
saw something was wrong.  Went to a skin clinic
but did not tell the doctors there--and they never
asked--what supplements I was taking.  What I
went through with them--.  When they wanted
me to step into their UV chamber, I declined,
and never went back.  One night I showed a
co-worker how bad my legs had gotten.  He
said they looked like raw meat, and indeed they
did.  I stopped taking the A, and slowly my legs
got better.  Today I learned from AOL Health 
that too much A can cause osteoporosis.  I have
osteoporosis, and have had it since the mid 1990s; 
but I am genetically predisposed to it.  Also, after
my first adult-onset seizure in 1999, and after I
was no longer able to afford the Neurontin I was
intially given, my then doctor though I should wait 
to see if I would have another seizure.  I did, and
I did.  That doctor prescribed a medication which
I later learned/ can cause osteoporosis: phenytoin.  
Was eventually weaned off it by another doctor, a
neurologist, when I was eased into taking Keppra.  
Have been on it since.  So far/ it is working.
  Also learned today from the AOL Health article*
that the daily limit for E is 400 IU.  E is a blood
thinner and, among other things, can be be bad 
for one's heart.  The E supplement I use I will
not be using from today on as it has 400 IU.

  There is a site: ConsumerLab.com which is an
independent tester of some vitamins; but it is
a member site, and it costs $29.95 per year
or $49.50 for two years.

* Article author is Caroline Howard.



-
Brian A. J. Salchert  2008-06-24    

sw00928sl21-time

 Time


[ melody one ]

Where is the past?
Here comes today.
Why does tomorrow
seem far away?

All that we've done.
All that we do.
All that might yet come
depends on you.

Where is the past?
Here comes today.
Why does tomorrow
seem far away?

All that we've done.
All that we do.
All that might yet come
depends on you.

    [ melody two ]

    Through the years
    and through the moments;
    through what we
    can see.

    Through our works
    and through our tendings;
    through the prayer
    we share.

    Through the years
    and through the moments;
    through what we
    can see.

    Through our works
    and through our tendings;
    through the prayer
    we share.

[ repeat all verses above, and then add ]

Where is the past?
Here comes today.
Why does tomorrow
seem far away?



-
Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-06-23    

sw00927d41--done-done

 Now, if the broccoli florets I ate before 5 PM digest
peaceably—I haven't had broccoli since ???—this
day will be. . . .  Fudge squares.  Haven't had those
f s things since ??? either, and I didn't have any with
the broccoli.  If you can figure out what I am tapping
about, let me know.                                               
 Finished the Rhodingeedaddee part of my massive
project today.  In the process, I learned new facts
about Blogger that were and will be of value.  AOL
Journals and Google Blogger live in continents that
are quite unlike each other.  Am tempted to rattle
about the differences, but am not up to it.  Put flat:
I had (as has been the usual most of my days) to
experiment.  Am concluding that FAQ are not the
way to help users.  It would be better if those who
program a service/ could clearly provide a list of
FYSK (facts you should know)  Rarely is a question
I want answered/ in a FAQ.



Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300



-
Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-06-22      

sw00926d40-done

  If I didn't miss any entries, my massive SH project
is done.  Now I need to work on Rho--.  Am trying
to prepare for what may be some harsh days ahead.
Such preparing is something I too often failed to do
during most of my years.  Work hard.  Use the gifts
you have been given as fully as you can.  Squander
nothing.  Be frugal.  Position yourself so that if all
around you crumbles, you will--God willing--be
able to survive.  I am an elder, a thankful yet sad
elder.  Over at Rho-- I may post a hard opinion
regarding this nation of my birth.  I have several
turnaround ideas, but I have my own life to turn
around.



Astronomer Anthony Ayiomamitis's captivating 
"Solstice Moonrise, Cape Sounion" photo



-
Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-06-20  

sw00925sl20--strange-prophecy

 Strange Prophecy


When we    go down to the wa-ater
When we    go down to the sound
When we    go down to the wa-ater
The angels will be
The angels will be
The angels will be    arou-ound us

    The angels will be
    The angels will be
    The angels will be
    You'll see    you'll see
    The angels will be
    The angels will be
    The angels will be
    You'll see    you'll see

(repeat all above and then add)

    The angels will be
    The angels will be
    The angels will be    arou-ound us



-
Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-06-20

sw00924d39-danger

 Around PM 3:15 severe storm/tornado sirens.  Since I was
online, I went to the weather service I use.  Map showed a
red in northern Springfield.  Darkening sky.  Thunder. Shut
down and unplugged computer system.  Rain.  Heavy rain.
Intermittently for the next half hour, ice pellets zipizapzutted
against my windows.  Water droplets seeped onto the sills
inside.  Wiped them with towling sheets.  Nearing PM 4, when
it seemed the storm was passing, sirens again for about the
fifth time.  At 4 I turned on the one radio I use for weather,
and while I was listening/ the National Weather Service
discontinued the storm warnings for this area.  Later this
evening, though, and all day tomorrow, more chances of 
severe weather.


-
Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-06-19   

sw00923d38-density

 Build Bone:

nutrition slideshow

WebMD article

2005-04-27 bone density article

10 foods that build bones

-

Also, do a    fighting osteoporosis    search and choose the sponsored
Johns Hopkins option in the list to the right.  That's what I did; but, of
course, you do as you need to.



-
Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-06-19

sw00922sl19-exercise

 Exercise


You're up
you're down
you're in
you're out
you're round
and round    today

You're up
you're down
you're in
you're out
you're gal-
axies    away

    Look up
    look down
    look in
    look out
    look round
    and round    survey

    Look up
    look down
    look in
    look out
    adjust 
    your dark    to pay

We had
a place
we did adid did did
we had
a place
to stay

We had
a place
we did adid did did
we had
a place
to pray

    (chorus)

There was
a ball
called Earth
I'm told
it swung
about
a star

"Twas green
'twas blue
'twas brown
'twas white
'twas shat-
tered by    a bar

    (chorus)




-
Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-06-17

sw00921a-determinations

    from 1972 photo by Mr. John Poulter *

  As of today no in-progress books of poems
remain in this journal.  See "All About Me".  
Of the 13 books, one is a double chapbook:
Autobio Poems; three: This Day's Poem,
Prayers in December, Seminary are
chapbooks; and one: my hometown lyric 
narrative Fond du Lac could be a chapbook
if it were published on paper.

Rooted Sky 2007, originally published 
in 1972 as Rooted Sky, is some places
called a chapbook but I've always thought
of it as a book.
-
Other books are Justan Tamarind,
Postures 2007, June 2007, Sets, The
Undulant Trees, and Venturings.  
-
Then there is the opus:
1976: in 2006, originally published as
1976--366 sonnets and 12 reflections--
in the cassette medium.  Presently 352 
sonnets and no reflections, even if it were  
published with two sonnets on each page, 
would be a substantial traditional book.



-
* John Poulter was an inmate at the
   Wisconsin Men's Penitentiary in
   Waupun, Wisconsin that year.



-
Brian A. J. Salchert

sw00920d37-drenched

 Yesterday was an extremely heavy rain day here in Springfield,
drowning the old record of 1.67 inches set in 1964 by around 2 
inches.

sw00919sl18--For-You

 For You


All through the nights
All through the days
My heart will never
Turn away

All through the months
All through the years
My heart will ever
Conquer fear

    Come follow Me
    Come follow Me
    I give you true
    Eternity

    Come follow Me
    Come follow Me
    I give you true
    Eternity



[ The lyrics I write, as well as the melodies I sense beneath them,
    come from the Ether.  This being so, out there may be
    other or more verses for this.  Therefore, anyone is welcome
    to extend this song.  And where is God?  God is
    in and beyond    the neutrino streams. ]


Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-06-13

sw00918sl17-So

 So


    We went around the block.
    We went around the schoolyard.
    We went around the block,
    and then we went back home.

My daddy had a garden.
My daddy had a hoe.
My daddy had a shovel,
and it was full of coal.

We used to eat at Arby's.
We used to eat at Mick's.
We used to eat at Wendy's,
but now we just eat sticks.

    We went around the block.
    We went around the schoolyard.
    We went around the block,
    and then we went back home.

Our home is in the city.
Our home is in the dump.
Our home, it isn't pretty
because it's filled with junk.

If we had had a ladder;
if we had had an oak,
we could have built a treehouse,
and painted it like smoke.

    We went around the block.
    We went around the schoolyard.
    We went around the block,
    and then we went too far.




-
Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-06-12

sw00917d36--state-of-being

 Awake at 6:16, I was pondering a lucid dream I'd just had.
In it I had been trying to deal with a tray of food in a space
which was too small.  Immediately realized/ that as small 
as I am physically, complaining about never having enough
space is likely the major voiced negative in my life.  Later
after completing my usual bed-centered routine, my major
unvoiced negative revealed itself: frustration.  Then while
I was in the kitchen with my multivitamin and potassium
supplements, I fell to considering again that neither hell
nor heaven may be actual places in the sense we here
on Earth recognize actual places, but may well be the
state-of-being one has chosen as representative of    
who one is.  It is not that I haven't experienced many
moments of peace and happiness.  I have.  Even so,
for reasons I to this day do not fully understand, it
seems frustration (and the unhappiness which flows
therefrom) is the dominant state-of-being I persist in.
-
Back to the massive project begun yesterday.



-
Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-06-12

sw00916d35-deployed

 Am engaged in a massive project.  Have no idea when I'll
return; but I must attend the labors at hand, for if I do not,
they will not get done; and they must get done.



Brian Salchert    2008-06-11

sw00915sl16--go-into-the-water

Go    into the water
Go   into the water
Down & up and round & round
Go    into the water

Go    into the water
Go    into the water
Down & up and round & round
Go    into the water




-
Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-06-10

sw00914d34--Rooted-Sky-cover

=  cover of original 1972 book of poems and one letter
     published by Tom Montag's Monday Morning Press



Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-06-09

sw00913d33-disturbances

  Erratic sleep night.  Was awakened just before 1 by a small storm.
After that my sleep was interrupted four more times, the last by the
resident above me who was uncharacteristically up and active at   
5:44; but I remained atop my bed (warm night due to temperatures  
around 90 Sunday) for another hour.                                             
 100% chance of rain all day, but we are sweetly passing through
a mild trough with the heaviest rain to our east and a large area of
moderate rain to our west.
 Finished reading The Mathematical Experience shortly before
midnight.  This morning I peeked into Math Without Tears by Roy
Hartkopf.  It was published in 1985 by G. K. Hall & Co. out of Boston,
Massachusetts.
 My brain has been rather helter-skelter, seeking information from 
sites which have no relation to each other.



-
Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-06-09

sw00912sl15-whistle

There      goes    the whistle.
There      goes    the whi-i-stle.
It blows and blows.
It blows and blows.
It blows and blows.
The whistle.

There      goes    the whistle.
There      goes    the whi-i-stle.
It blows and blows.
It blows and blows.
It blows and blows.
The whistle.

    There blows the whistle.
    There blows the whi-i-stle.
    There blows the whistle.
    There it blows again.

    There blows the whistle.
    There blows the whi-i-stle.
    There blows the whistle.
    There it blows again.





 Repeat until tired of repeating.



Someday I'll learn how to show the melodies for my song lyrics.
[ Hint:  sing each of first two lines like "pop goes the weasel" ]


revised 2008-06-26



Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-06-06

sw00911d32-ditty

 Sure


Mary had an estuary;
the estuary had a ferry (fairy?);

and everywhere the ferry (fairy?) went,
the estuary got all bent.




-
Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-06-05

sw00910d31--daynote

 On what was predicted to be a clear day, the leading edge
of a thunderstorm at 9 AM, with clouds moving mostly north
and a tad east.  To the south clear sky was visible.  At 9:15  
a moment of heavy rain, and cloudiness to the south.  By
9:25 the satellite showed the storm had passed east and
to the north.  It is now 9:37 and I am hearing thunder again.
About 9:40 the thunder ceased.



2008-06-04

sw00909piks--Saltillo-cover

   For some years I have not been able to find the actual magazine.
   It could be I left it behind after copying its cover.  My "Tonight"
   poem—which in this blog is in Postures 2007—was published in it.
   Kansas-born Nebraska poet, William Kloefkorn, was Saltillo's editor.

sw00908v-55.poem53

Venturings



 The Poem

                        for Galway Kinnell

" . . . by the light
from the joined hemispheres of the spider's eyes,"
I make my meeter,
old peppermint fate  /  barber pole;
and there is no way I go
he does not guide me,
sweet          & sure.
Whatever ringlets grow
on the planes of the common,
the innocence and violence
of this child
will never fade: constantly/ he calls me
in, bids me taste,
and believe he offers absolute support.
Oh all the elms are carrot tops;
the oaks/ trained tomatoes.
In the bleariest jungles of my dreams,
he shows.
Sense, nonsense, void,
he sings me a phrase to discover from:
My grandmother washed her sins on rocks   (or)
Tra-la-la in a quaint, merry town               (or)
I know what I've felt          & the shadows cry.
There is never an end;
the images tumble
as though they were
in a turning cage,
and are bright as/ an island of stars.
Though I cower in the shadows of emerald and jade,
in the steam born of leaf-eaten sun,
thump,
there are only beginnings.
And the beginnings/ come from me
because I'm awake,
and the beginnings come from he who meets
because he/ owns my heart;
and all the endings that ever come
are fashioned/ by the mind.
I am wrapped in linen;
I am wrapped in blood.
Take care.  Take care.  Take care.

                                                       6-18-71



Brian A. J. Salchert